Hospital basins used to administer chlorhexidine baths are unlikely microbial reservoirs

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 643-645

  Rupp, Mark E ^a,b   Huerta, Tomas ^a   Yu, Stephanie ^a   Cavalieri, R Jennifer ^a   Alter, Roxanne ^a   Fey, Paul D ^a   Lyden, Elizabeth ^c   Van Schooneveld, Trevor ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; SOAP; TAP WATER;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INOCULATION; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BACTERIAL LOAD; BATHS; CHLORHEXIDINE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DISINFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FOMITES; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS;

EID: 84877665781     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/670622     Document Type: Article

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